Biodiversity is a continued hot topic especially in regards to farming. Hopefully those that attended our summer barbeque at Knepp have has a chance to see some of the diversity regenerative farming is bringing back. Knepp is an example of a large-scale regenerative project which understandably wouldn’t fit most farms but there are definitely principles …
Here at The Livestock Partnership we are delighted to announce that Claire has joined the senior management team as a Clinical Director. As many of you know Claire is a longstanding member of our team, joining The Livestock Partnership in 2009 . Since then Claire has built a key role for herself with her interests …
Many of our pedigree beef and dairy clients are members of CHECS accreditation bodieslike SAC and Biobest to help them to achieve high health status for infectious diseaseslike BVD, Johne’s disease, IBR, Leptospirosis and Neospora. Now there havebeen changes made to the TB accreditation.CHECS TB Entry Level Membership works on the principle that implementing a …
Last month I got introduced to some of the people behind the website www.dungbeetlesforfarmers.co.uk I was told about the introduction of dung beetles to Australia. Here the native dung beetles were only able to deal with dung of marsupials and not that of livestock which got introduced in the 18880’s. This was one major reason …
Some of you will know that I am rather keen on investigating transition health and performance and one of my preferred techniques is to perform blood tests on dairy cows in the week before they calve in order to monitor energy balance and nutrition. This is important as cows which are in poor energy balance …
